First, let’s get the good news right out in the open and then out of the way – Big Trouble in Little China is still available for streaming on Netflix, presumably because it’s the greatest movie ever made. However, 80 movies will expire from the website’s online catalog when the clock strikes midnight, and we’re all going to feel like complete dicks for not taking advantage of such important titles while we had the chance. There are a lot of great titles on the list that you’re about to read, but none more important than Spaceballs. Naturally, any smart movie fan won’t be affected by this, because you already own Spaceballs on DVD or Blu-Ray and Netflix is just removing it because nobody actually needs to stream it anymore.
However, if you’re one of the five or six people left on this planet that doesn’t own Spaceballs, it’s time to open up Netflix and watch it one last time. Oh, and I guess these other 79 movies in case you’re wrong and like them more.
1) 10 Questions For The Dalai Lama
2) A Borrowed Life
3) A View To A Kill
4) AeonFlux
5) After Fall, Winter
6) Angel Heart
7) As Good as it Gets
8) Bad Company
9) Bang The Drum Slowly
10) Beavis And Butt-head Do America
11) Call Northside 777
12) Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
13) Chinatown
14) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15) Comic Book Villains
16) Cotton Comes To Harlem
17) Death Wish 3
18) Death Wish 4
19) Desert Fox
20) Dr. Strangelove
21) Dragonslayer
22) Event Horizon
23) Evil Dead II
24) Fist Of The North Star
25) For Your Eyes Only
26) Freedom Writers
27) From Russia With love
28) Future By Design
29) Gattaca
30) Girl, Interrupted
31) Goldfinger
32) Hotel Rwanda
33) Howard Stern’s Private Parts
34) Killing Zoe
35) Lars and the Real Girl
36) Last Holiday
37) Less Than Zero
38) Live And Let Die
39) Look Who’s Talking
40) Look Who’s Talking Now
41) Look Who’s Talking Too
42) Monkeybone
43) Naked Ambition
44) Never Say Never Again
45) Nick Of Time
46) No Way Home
47) Only The Strong
48) Palo Alto
49) Party Monster
50) Point Blank
52) Poolhall Junkies
53) Resident Evil
54) Robinson Crusoe On Mars
55) Rocky
56) Rocky II
57) Rocky III
58) Rocky IV
59) Rocky V
60) Roger Dodger
61) Rubber
62) Some Time, Next Year
63) Spanglish
64) Spirit Of The Marathon
65) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
66) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
67) Stuart Saves His Family
68) Taxi Driver
69) Tentacles
70) The African Queen
71) The Dust Factory
72) The Little Prince
73) The Living Daylights
74) The Night Of The Living Dead
75) The Odd Couple
76) The Rat Race
77) The Running Man
78) The Terminator
79) Tokyo Godfathers
The Running Man, too? You are a cruel bitch, Netflix. Alas, she giveth as she taketh away, and there will be plenty of new titles filling the void left by those 80 movies that you’ll forget about in 20 minutes.
1) 12 Angry Men
2) A Raisin in the Sun
3) Bad Santa
4) Basic Instinct
5) Boyz N the Hood
6) City of God
7) Dead Man Walking
8) Fever Pitch
9) Funny Face
10) Gandhi
11) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
12) Legends of the Fall
13) Patton
14) Philadelphia
15) Primal Fear
16) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
17) The Karate Kid
18) The Karate Kid II
19) The Karate Kid III
20) The Manchurian Candidate
21) The Parent Trap
22) Under the Tuscan Sun
23) Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
24) American Ninja
25) Ararat
26) The Babysitter
27) Best Defense
28) Blue Chips
29) Body of Evidence
30) Can’t Buy Me Love
31) Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke
32) Crimson Tide
33) Croupier
34) The Dark Half
35) Don’t Look Now
36) Eight Men Out
37) Halloween: Resurrection
38) The Hunt For Red October
39) Jersey Girl
40) The Keys of the Kingdom
41) Madeline
42) Mean Girls
43) My Girl
44) My Girl 2
45) People I Know
46) Phantoms
47) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
48) Venus
Jersey Girl and Phantoms on the same day? Looks like someone’s hosting a Ben Affleck slumber party tomorrow night!
The best news of all? Netflix will have Hitch available for online streaming on July 14. If you can’t enjoy the epic two-part speech that Will Smith gives to win Eva Mendes’s heart at the end of that movie, then you might not have a soul. Also, Amber Valletta falling for Kevin James is the most believable thing that has ever happened in a movie.